Our Technology
For over a decade, Protochips pioneered electron microscopy solutions to accelerate your in situ research. Protochips innovation is accomplished by continuously focusing on your needs and constantly improving your experience through our products. Learn more about the innovations at the core of your product and how they’ve improved the in situ microscopy experience below.
Our E-chips
EDS-Optimized E-chips
Minimizing the amount of material between the sample and detector, this process maximizes EDS Counts Per Second (CPS).
Found on Poseidon
Patent# EU: 003371632-0001+0002
Closed-Cell Holder Design
The closed-cell holder design was one of the innovations that brought in situ techniques to numerous areas of research, enabling high resolution sample imaging in liquid and gaseous environments which was previously impossible. Using two self-aligning E-chips to safely encapsulate samples, this holder design transforms any TEM or STEM into a nanoscale in situ laboratory.
Found on Poseidon & Atmosphere
Patent# US: 8829469, 9437393, 9837746; EU: 2601669; JAPAN: 6014036
Intellectual Property
The patents shown here represent only a fraction of our collective patent portfolio. Our company takes seriously the use of its corporate name, brand names and trademarks, and reserves all rights associated with such marks.
List Of Our Patents
This page is intended to serve as notice under 35 U.S.C. § 287(a). In accordance with 35 USC 287(a), Protochips provides notice that the products below are protected by the associated patents listed. The following list of products and patents is not all-inclusive. These products and additional products may be protected by one or more additional patents and pending patents in the U.S. and elsewhere.
AXON™, AXON Synchronicity™, and AXON Dose™ products: | United States: US 10,986,279 | US 11,399,138 | 11,902,665 | 12,010,430 Pending – Publication # 20240196094 Europe: EP 3931853 Pending – Publication # 4414698 China: CN 114041200 Pending – Publication # 116453924 Japan: JP 7264539 |
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AXON Studio™: | United States: US 11,455,333 | US 11,755,639 | US 12,130,858 | Us 11,514,586 Pending – Publication # TBH Europe: Pending – Publication # 4320637 China: Pending – Publication # 117546265 Japan: Pending – Publication # TBH |
Aduro™, Fusion AX™, and Fusion AX Select™ products: | United States: US 7,713,053 | US 8,513,621 | US 8,853,646 | US 8,859,991 | US 8,872,128 | US 8,872,129 | US 9,048,065 | US 9,064,672 | US 9,275,825 | US 9,275,826 | US 9,312,097 | US RE48,201 | US 10,460,906 Japan: JP 5462859 | JP 5608094 | JP 5869024 | JP 6272614 | JP 6162174 Europe: EP 2153461 Netherlands: EP 2153461 Denmark: EP 2153461 Switzerland: EP 2153461 United Kingdom: EP 2153461 France: EP 2153461 Czech Republic: EP 2153461 |
Poseidon AX™, Poseidon AX Select™, and Triton AX™ products: | United States: US 8,829,469 | US 9,040,939 | US 9,324,539 | US 9,437,393 | US 9,466,459 | US 9,666,409 | US 10,256,563 | US D841,183 | US 10,192,714 | US 10,128079 | US 10,043,633 | US 10,014,154 | US 9,997,330 | US D806,892 | US 10,373,800 | US 9,837,746 | US 10,777,380 | US 10,586,679 | US 10,460,906 | US 10,446,363 | US 1,1170,968 Japan: JP 1536854 | JP 6014036 | JP 6532558; JP 6829249 Europe: EP 002598318-0001+0002 | EP 003371632-0001+0002 Netherlands: EP 2601669 Denmark: EP 2601669 Switzerland: EP 2601669 United Kingdom: EP 2601669 | EP 90033716320001+0002 | EP 3345205 France: EP 2601669 Czech Republic: EP 2601669 Unitary Patent (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, and Sweden): EP 3345205 China: 208,489,169 |
Triton AX™ products: | Patent(s) Pending |
Atmosphere AX™ products: | United States: US 8,829,469 | US 8,872,129 | US 9,324,539 | US 9,437,393 | US 9,466,459 | US, 9,275,826 | US 9,666,409 | US 10,373,800 | US 10,256,563 | US D841,183 | US 10,192,714 | US 10,043,633 | US 9,997,330 | US D806,892 | US 9,837,746 | US 9,984,850 | US 9,915,926 | US 10,586,679 | US 10,503,127 | US 10,460,906 | US 11222765 | US 11222765 Japan: JP 2153461 | JP 1536854 | JP 6014036 | JP 6532558 | JP 6272614 | JP 6162174 | JP 7209372 | JP 7545749 Europe: EP 002598318-0001+0002 | EP 003371632-0001+0002 | EP 2601669 | EP 3649529 Netherlands: EP 2601669, EP 3649529 Denmark: EP 2601669, EP 3649529 Switzerland: EP 2601669, EP 3649529 United Kingdom: EP 2601669, EP 3649529 France: EP 2601669, EP 3649529 Czech Republic: EP 2601669, EP 3649529 |
E-Chips™ products: | United States: US 8,872,129 | US 8,920,723 | US 9,040,939 | US 9,048,065 | US 9,984,850 | US 10,128,079 | US 10,446,363 | US 10,777,380 | US 11,170,968 | US D841,183 | 11,476,083 Japan: JP 6829249 | JP 5869024 | JP 6272614 | JP 6162174 Europe: EP 003371632-0001+0002 | EP 2153461 | EP 3345205 Netherlands: EP 2153461 Denmark: EP 2153461 Switzerland: EP 2153461 United Kingdom: 003371632-0001+0002 | EP 2153461 France: EP 2153461 Czech Republic: EP 2153461 Unitary Patent (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, and Sweden): EP 3345205 |
Trademarks
Protochips is an innovative company offering high quality products and services. Our company takes seriously the use of its corporate name, brand names and trademarks, and reserves all rights associated with such marks.
Our legal corporate name is Protochips, Inc.
Our current trademarks include:
- Protochips™
- DuraSiN™
- Aduro™
- Fusion™
- Poseidon Select™
- E-chip™
- GapSet™
- Interactive real-time microscopy™
- See smaller™
- Don’t imagine it. Image it.™
- Quantifiably Better™
- SmartTemp™
- Precision Electric™
- Clarity™
- ImageSync™
- Fusion Select™
- AXON™
- AXON Synchronicity™
- AXON Studio™
- AXON Dose™
- AXON HFR™
- Synchronicity™
- Creating the Connected Lab™
- In-Situ TEM Powered by AXON™
- Fusion AX™
- Atmosphere AX™
- Poseidon AX™